Elif Sudagezer who is a former student of mine and who works for a best selling newspaper’s online site has written a piece on Mrs. Erdoğan’s visit to Brussels. Elif will be writing weekly roundups on Turkish popular culture though this her first piece is a different sort…
Emine Erdoğan watched a concert performed by Turkish pop star Sertap Erener in Brussels on Friday. VIA
Currently, The Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?s wife Emine Erdoğan is addressing a speech in a conference called ?The role of Turkish Women in Turkey?s EU processes which she joined with a huge group of Turkish business women to represent Turkey.
But there is a question to be asked here. Is that really that helpful to be in such a populist manner to improve and speed up the process of Turkey?s EU process in these uncertain conditions?
According to me, the possibility of early voting stimulates the government to create a ?too interested in important subjects like women and EU? image to alter the perception in that way.
Despite the fact that ?women? and ?EU? issues are really important to bring together, first of all each of them should be solved particularly to make the collage of the two issues more meaningful.
Also another question mark is in sample. Are these 300 women most appropriate sample to represent Turkish women and are they heterogeneous enough?
Moreover, according Milliyet newspaper ?Erdoğan will explain Turkish woman?. What does that mean? Will she give success examples in business life of Turkey? Will she talk about the social status of women or will she talk about the the innovation needed in legislation about women?
Most of the important issues aren?t discussed, but they seem to be discussed?
I hope 300 people return to Turkey not with smiling celebrity pictures but with the permanent strategic innovation steps and different discourses.
AMANDA PAUL – Bravo, Mrs. Erdoğan
PACE slams Bulgaria over Turks
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou (L) meets Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister Ali Babacan in Athens April 30, 2010.? Read more »
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Ankara in a stew over price of meat
Constitutional reform and the EU negotiation process by Hélène Flautre
The economy, important developments in foreign policy, the European Union process, social issues and even the Kurdish initiative and headscarf issue, which were Turkey?s main agenda items in past years, have nearly dropped from the agenda.1-Foreign visitors to Turkey jump in March
Eroglu Victory in Northern Cyprus: What Should Be The Negotiation Dynamics?
Fatma Yilmaz-Elmas, USAK Centre for EU Studies
Elections in Northern Cyprus, turning into a quasi-race between supporters of the negotiation process and those who are against either the process itself or the course of process, resulted at the first round on April, 18. Dervis Eroglu won the presidential elections with just over 50% of the total vote whereas Mehmet Ali Talat was defeated by taking 42.84% of the vote in contrast to his previous victory in 2005 with an average 55%.
Turkey’s Soft Power In The Arab World
[Originally published in Hurriyet Daily News] About a month ago, I spent half a day with a group of journalists from Syria, who were visiting Istanbul for meetings with their Turkish colleagues. We contemplated on the historical ties between our countries, and spoke positively about our growing relations. During the lunch, one of the Syrian guests kindly posed me a personal question: “Which party are you from sir?” “Party?” I replied with another question, “You mean a political party?” “Yes, of course,” he explained. “For example I am a member of the Baath party.” Then I responded by telling him that I am not a member of any political party, and neither are other Turkish journalists. “In Turkey,” I explained, “we journalists might sympathize with parties, but we don’t become their members.”
USCIRF Again Designates Turkey a “Country of Particular Concern”
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has released its 2010 annual report on the state of religious freedom in countries throughout the world and Turkey has again been named a “Country of Particular Concern.” Since the file on the USCIRF website appears to be somehow damaged, below are excerpts of reportage from Today’s Zaman:
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